“Maybe I deserve/For you to stay out with him all night.” In R&B, it’s customary for the singer’s conviction to grow as the song progresses, so Tank’s imagery becomes increasingly ...

Despite releasing his first album in 2001 and crafting hits like “Maybe I Deserve” and “Please ... This combination of photos show music artists, top row from left, Ashanti, Babyface ...

The "I Deserve" crooner Tank gives PEOPLE Every Day host Janine Rubenstein an update on his health battle and talks about putting together his upcoming final album, R&B Money ...

“I deserve” samples and is a call back to his 2001 hit “Maybe I Deserve ... I’m so grateful to all the R&B music lovers because this couldn’t happen without you,” states Tank.

Tank, the R&B revivalist and writer of hits for Jamie Foxx, Aaliyah and others, was a romantic supplicant at S.O.B.’s on Tuesday night.

So maybe that’s why it seems like there’s so much explicit music because there’s just more music now, period.” — Chloe Bailey, five-time Grammy nominee.